1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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find that I could manage in the same wav with 

 weak tea, and not mind it very much. 



Now, then, friends, before taking a sea- 

 voyage take at least three or four meals of 

 lean meat, especially avoiding starch, sugar, 

 and fruits of ever\- description. When vou 

 begin to get sick, if you can not get rid of it 

 bv keeping out in the open air, facing the 

 ■^vind, lie down as I have described, in a clean 

 pure-air berth; and when you can take anv 

 thing, take just lean meat', and you \n:i not 

 be nauseated and distressed any {hing like as 

 rnuch as if you had been on'a fermentable 

 diet. The lean meat absolutely can not fer- 

 ment, like articles of food containing sugar, 

 starch, or even milk. 



Now, there is one thing more that I must 

 mention, even at the risk of oflFending some 

 good friends who may think it hardlv fit for 

 public print. Your lean-meat diet \vill tend 

 to constipation if you are not accustomed to 

 it, and the special thing to avoid is ha\-ing 

 j'our bowels overloaded, or loaded at all with 

 the accumulations of several days past. Sea- 

 sickness will work a remedy, it is true, but it 

 is a very severe remedy, and a-oiu- suffering 

 may be "long drawn' out" 'before relief 

 comes. 



Just before starting for home I had, as I sup - 

 posed, gotten myself in prettv good condition 

 by the use of hot-water injections ( the rubber 

 bags now in common use are ver^- convenient 

 for this purpose when traveling i'; but I after- 

 ward found out that, although hot water had 

 taken away something every morning, there 

 had not been a free and complete evacuation. 

 After 24 hours of acute suffering, in connec- 

 tion with seasickness, another trial of the hot- 

 water injection succeeded to mv complete 

 satisfaction. I had abundant e'vidence of 

 complete deliverance from enough " unpleas- 

 antness " to make the healthiest man in the 

 world at least ;r(75t>;/a6/r sick; and from that 

 time on, by confining my diet to pure lean 

 beef, and keeping siill, I could sing Beulah 

 Land, and thank God for life and existence. 



Permit me to say here that, when the boat 

 went over the waves, up and down lengthwise, 

 I did not mind it ver^- much; but a large boat 

 like the Trinidad is' hable to get to rocking 

 from side to side. The motion is so slow that, 

 unless you get properly braced, vou will be 

 apt to roll from one side of your berth to the 

 other. I doubled myself up so as to get my 

 knees against one side, and mv back agains't 

 the_ other, and in that way I could sleep, and, 

 in fact, I did sleep a great part of mv time. A 

 good friend suggests that a hammock, under 

 such circumstances, would give relief, but I 

 did not have an opportunitv of trj-ing one. 

 Just before going ashore at New York I ate a 

 beefsteak, and an &^^ on toast, and soon felt 

 pretty well. Permit me to sav that the beef- 

 steaf furnished by the boat 'is of excellent 

 quality — as good as you can get in anv of our 

 large cities; and when you are sick it' will be 

 brought to your berth at any hour of the day 

 you call for it. If you ca'n not get meat, 

 fresh eggs answer better than most vegetables! 

 Well, I ate my steak about ten o'clock in the 

 morning, before going ashore. My train did 



not leave New York till five. Before taking 

 the train I went to a restaurant and asked for 

 a beefsteak. They did not serve anv for less 

 than 50 cts. . and so I told them to bri'ng along 

 a fifty-cent tenderloin steak, thinking I could 

 eat what I wanted of it. The waiter brought 

 a great platter containing enough for a good- 

 sized family. But I was just getting an appe- 

 tite after my voyage, and I ate it all wthout 

 much trouble. In fact, I do not know that I 

 ever had trouble by overeating good lean beef 

 where nothing else was taken 'wnth it. I went 

 on board the train, slept tiptop, and reached 

 Cleveland in time for early breakfast Sunday 

 morning. (Of course, I 'do not approve o'f 

 Sunday travel ; but where vou are on a train 

 with a through ticket, it is 'not an easv matter 

 to have things just as you would like^ them. ) 

 I stopped at a good hotel, and, feeling unusu- 

 ally well and hungr\-, I ate a prettv fair regular 

 meal. Then I looked up the churches, and 

 by accident fell in with my dear friend and 

 old pastor, W. S. Ament, a missionarv from 

 China, who was on his wav to preach in a 

 Cleveland church. Of course, I went with 

 him. When his most excellent sermon was 

 about half through, I began to be seasick. 

 You may inquire how I could be seasick 

 while sitting in church. But I tell vou I nas 

 seasick. The church seemed rocking, exactly 

 as if it were on the waves. It would go away 

 up on one side until I almost wondered why 

 the audience did not lean over in iheir seats, 

 and then go back and roll slowlv up the other- 

 side. As the church was crowded, and I was 

 near the pulpit, there was no possible way of 

 getting out, so I sat and suffered, and pra'ved 

 for deliverance. It did not come, however, 

 until I got to my hotel, and got mv head down 

 just as I did on the berth in the boat. \Miat 

 did it? I soon found out, without an}- mis- 

 take. While at breakfast I sucked the' juice 

 of an orange, and ate a dish of oatmeal and 

 cream, while the waiter was bringing my 

 beefsteak. I was not sufficiently recovered 

 from the effects of the sea-voyage to manage 

 fruit, milk, etc. For supper, vou mav be 

 sure, I had clear beefsteak once more. By the 

 time I reached home I was able to eat buck- 

 wheat cakes and molasses, and- things that 

 other people do — that is, pro\'ided I took 

 them in moderation. Now, I am well aware 

 that a great part of this is, in substance, a 

 stor}- I have told before Perhaps I should 

 not have made this repetition were it not that 

 new readers are continually asking me ques- 

 tions about the lean-meat 'method of treating 

 disease. A good many want to know whether 

 I still continue dieting: what I think of lean 

 meat by this time, etc. I have answered you 

 pretty faithfully. Let me give vou a li'ttle 

 summary- I'as the experiment stations do) at 

 the close of my story. 



If you are able to eat and digest such food 

 as people do generally, all right. You may 

 thank God that 3-ou are not obliged to take 

 up the lean-meat diet. If, however, vou have 

 trouble with fermentation, sick-heada'che, etc., 

 such as I have described, then go to work and 

 carefully test the matter, and see if it would 

 not be better for you to pay your money out 



